Mop or brush holder.



No. 756,385. PATENTBD 11.5, 1904. J. c. LOOK. MOP 0R BRUSH HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1902. H0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 5, 1904..

JOHN C. LOOK, OF TUDOR, CALIFORNIA.

MOP OR BRUSH HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 756,385, dated April 5,1904;.

Application filed September 8, 1902- Serial No. 122,573. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN 0. Look, a citizen of the United States,residing at Tudor, county of Sutter, State of California, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Mop or Brush Holders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of the invention is to combine certain improvements inpatents granted to me, notably Patent No. 695,063, March 11, 1902,wherein the lever that operates the clamp is pivoted to an annular pawlor yoke surrounding the handle and held in engagement with a ratchetattached to the handle, and Patent No. 706,244, August 5, 1902, whereinthe lever is pivoted to a horizontal pawl on the same side of the handleas the ratchet. The combination of these two gives the value of theannular yoke, which retains itself on the handle without furtherconnection, and the value of operating the lever from the side of thehandle on which the ratchet is located. It may also come under the headof an improvement on the last named patent, No. 7 06,244, wherein ahorizontal pawl .is claimed with means for retaining the said pawl onthe handle, the yoke here shown being the means for that purpose.

The clampin device is shown and described in my application, Serial No.41, 641, filed December 31, 1900.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective Fig. 2 is a side elevationshowing the clamp open. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the clampclosed, certain parts being broken away. Fig. 4 is a cross-section online A A of Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a crosssection on the line B B of Fig.8.

Upon the handle a is secured in the usual manner the clamp head 6,having formed therein the elongated guides 0. Through said guides passthe sides of the clamp-jaw d, made of a single piece of spring-wirehaving its middle portion bent at an angle (Z over the face of theclamp-head. The sides of the.

clamp-wire are curved in a bow shape to form springs f, and their endsare pivotally con nected with the lugs g of a lever it.

The lever it is formed with parallel sides 71 and at the end with a bar,7', fulcrumed in a box is of a pawl Z, said box is being formed bybending down the end of a leaf m after the bar j is inserted therein.

The pawl Z has an annular part Z, that surrounds the handle.

A ratchet n is secured on said handle. Said pawl Z has a lip 0 engagingthe ratchet-teeth. It has also two guides 10, one on each side of theratchet and lying between the sid es of the ratchet and the sides of thelever. These guides not only guide thepawl along theratchet, but theyalso prevent the under side of the pawl Z inclining too far forward,which would prevent the lip 0 entering the notches between theratchet-teeth.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the device as clamping a mop and in Fig. 3 asclamping a brush.

In Fig. 4 the lip 0 of the pawl is shown as disengaged from the ratchet,and in Fig. 5 the lip 0 is shown asengaging the ratchet.

The operation is as follows: The clamp device being open, as shown inFig. 2, the lever is moved toward the handle. This pauses the guides 10to strike the handle, thus insuring the engagement of the lip 0 with theratchet, and the pawl assumes the position shown in Fig. 3. along thehandle, carrying with it the pawl which slides over the ratchet-teethand also carrying with it the clamp device until the proper notch isreached, after which the lever is pressed down, as shown in Fig. 3. Inthis position it is held by the action of the springs f, said springsbeing below the bar j, by which the lever h is fulcrumed.

The operation of opening the clamp is of course the reverse of theabove. The springs f are for taking up distance between two successiveratchet teeth. The teeth .being rigid and also the brush-head, it mighthappen that without the springs, when the pawl was in a certain notch,the body would be held too tightly, whereas the notch neXt it would makeit too loose. Said springs fare curved bowshaped and in planessubstantially at right angles to the longitudinal plane through thehandle and clamp-head. This curvature is preferable for brushes, as thebrush is then held at about the right position for scrubbing.

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